IPMI SOL card with Ubun"> Setup an IPMI SOL card with Ubuntu

Fixing Grub to work with SOL

References

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto

Install Setup

• Install ipmitools
• Enable SOL in BIOS on comm port 2 or 3
• Modify /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS1,115200n8 console=tty0"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"
GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"

• We need to patch the grub utilities
• patch /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig grub-mkconfig.patch
  • Download Link grub-mkconfig.patch: grub-mkconfig.patch

• patch /etc/grub.d/00_header 00_header.patch
  • Download Link 00_header.patch: 00_header.patch
• update-grub - update grub

Serial Login init script

• Enable Serial TTY in Ubuntu
  • Create /etc/init/ttyS1.conf

root@swag:/etc/init# cat ttyS1.conf 
# ttyS1 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel [012345]
stop on runlevel [!12345]

respawn
exec /sbin/getty -L 115200 ttyS1 vt102

• • start ttyS1 - manually start the new service